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— Donald Trump promotes $1,776 cash payments to service members while escalating explicit oil-driven rhetoric about Venezuela, raising concerns that patriotic rewards are being used to soften troops ahead of potential military action
— Donald Trump signs an executive order reclassifying cannabis to Schedule III, formally acknowledging medical use while stopping far short of federal legalization or criminal justice reform
— Reporting reveals Susie Wiles pushed Donald Trump into a nationally televised address meant to deflect from her Vanity Fair fallout, resulting in a rambling speech that damages both Trump and his administration
— Donald Trump appears disengaged and authoritarian as he dismisses congressional oversight and avoids accountability
— Fox News anchor John Roberts publicly dismantles Howard Lutnick’s mathematically impossible defense of Donald Trump’s exaggerated pricing claims
— Cardiologist Jonathan Reiner warns that Donald Trump’s frantic speech cadence raises serious medical and leadership concerns for a sitting commander in chief
— Trump administration officials delay credit for economic outcomes by pushing promised gains into 2026 while deflecting questions about present-day performance
— The Friday Feedback segment
— On the Bonus Show: The Epstein files were supposed to be released today, the Brown University shooting suspect was found dead, MAGA infighting spills into the Turning Point USA conference, and much more…
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